Sierra Morrison
5-Year-Old's
Ages and Stages
Mental Development
Social and emotional development
Books
- Invents games with simple rules
- Organize other children and toys for pretend play
- Still confuses fantasy with reality sometimes
- Books for parents: Caring for Your Baby and Young Child, Birth at Age 5, American Academy of Pediatrics, Steven P. Shelvov, ed.
- Books for Children: Ira Sleeps Over, Bernard Waber. Little Bear, Else Holmelund Minarik. Whistle for Willie, Ezra Jack Heats.
Physical Development
Toys
True or False?
- They know basic colors like red, yellow, blue, green, orange.
- Able to memorize a phone number or address.
- Understands that stories have a beginning, middle, and end.
- Enjoys telling his or her own stories.
- Enjoys riddles or books.
- Draws pictures that represent animals, people, and objects.
A five year old child knows basic colors like red, yellow, blue, green, and orange.
- board games
- blocks
- glue, scissors, paper
Ideas For Parents
What CAN'T a 5 year old child do?
A.) Learn to skip.
B.) Play with blocks.
C.) Count to 100.
D.) Able to memorize address and phone number.
- Weight: 31-57 pounds
- Height: 39-48 inches
- sleeps 10-11 hours at night
- may begin to lose baby teeth
- Able to dress self with a little assistance
- learns to skip
- Encourage physical development
- Help your child learn to use a pair of scissors
- Ask your child to tell you a story